MLB · LF · Baltimore Orioles
Christian Franklin
B/T R/R · 5' 9" · 195 lb · born Overland Park, KS, USA · age 26 · draft 2021 rd 4 · played LF 83, CF 47, RF 31, DH 21 · MLB debut 2026-08-04
97 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Overland Park's Christian Franklin, a fourth-rounder in 2021, debuted with Baltimore in August. He's managed just a .180 average over 21 games, though his last three MLB outings nudged to .308 with his first RBI.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Not statedA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.
- Service time
- 0 yr 55 d
- Options left
- 2 / 3
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Baltimore Orioles.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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Umpire favor
-0.5 net runs over 10 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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